The question of how much immigration we should allow and what criteria should be used for admission was the subject of sporadic debate, but suddenly it had hit the public consciousness that we had some large number of immigrants--3 million? 8 million? 12 million?--who had by-passed the admission process altogether.

As WFB sets the stage, "Mr. George Gallup has passed along the word that the American public is in a mood to consider alternatives to the present leadership, and seldom in American political history has there been such a stampede of patriots willing to come to the aid of their country."